Changing aid regimes? U.S. foreign aid from the Cold War to the War on Terror
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More aid signals a lower future threat perception and appears to raise investor confidence.
“Because donors increasingly link aid to encouraging enforcement efforts against terrorism (Azam and Thelen, 2010;Fleck and Kilby, 2010), aid's greater flow signals lower future threat perception, which appears to boost investors' confidence.”
From Foreign Direct Investment, Aid and Terrorism: An Analysis of Developing Countries (2011) · cites this paper as Fleck and Kilby, 2010
The Introduction reports that U.S. aid budgets increased with the War on Terror, supporting a link between aid and counterterrorism-era priorities. It does not establish that donors tied aid to recipients’ enforcement efforts against terrorism. The sentence presents lower threat perception and investor confidence as the citing authors’ inference, not a finding attributed to Fleck and Kilby. (LLM, conf=0.78)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredRecent aid flows often have a counterterrorism component.
“A substantial focus of recent aid flows is related to counterterrorism efforts (see, e.g., Fleck and Kilby, 2010).”
From Foreign Direct Investment, Aid and Terrorism: An Analysis of Developing Countries (2011) · cites this paper as Fleck and Kilby, 2010
The Introduction and Section III report a substantial increase in U.S. bilateral aid during the War on Terror, including funds for Iraq, Afghanistan, and important allies. This supports a counterterrorism-related component of recent U.S. aid, but the paper does not establish that counterterrorism was a substantial focus of recent aid flows generally or measure how much aid directly funded counterterrorism efforts. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Fleck, R. K., & Kilby, C.
- Affiliations
- Montana State University (US)
- Villanova University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kilby, Christopher
- Venue
- Journal of Development Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-03
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 185-197
- ISSN
- 0304-3878 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2035326024
- Cited by
- 297
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 57.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Journal of Development Economics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Vassar College
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Development › International Development and Aid
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Defense, Military, and Policy Studies
- Keywords
- US foreign aid, war on terror, aid allocation, aid budget, need-based aid, aid regime, Bush administration, Cold War, developing countries
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